I’ve played a little with Google’s new ngram app that, by searching all the digitized books, allows you trace the usage of a word over time. And of course I’ve tested it with “passwords” getting a quite interesting result.

One good thing of web applications is the ability to access them from any Internet enabled computer. However logging in to online services from public computers such as those found in internet cafes and libraries could expose your online credentials to keyloggers.

We’ve been busy at Clipperz: 5 updates in about 3 weeks. It’s time to sum up all new features and improvements that have been introduced to make it an even better password manager.

A long-awaited feature requested by many users it’s now available: a strong random password generator. Generating long, high-quality random passwords is not simple.

Using a password manager is not merely convenient, it’s an effective way to adopt better security practices without too much stress. It basically sums up to: 1) never re-use the same password, 2) use strong passwords.

But could you gauge the strength of your passwords? Can you easily determine how much entropy they contain?

Many things happened in the last two weeks! You have probably seen many small and big changes at Clipperz website.

As a result www.clipperz.com is no longer just a blog, but the home of a new online password manager. So, it’s time for a brief recap.

I wouldn’t recommend to use your browser as password manager. It’s not just a matter of security, but mostly of convenience.

• BBC News - [Keeping secrets from web spies][7]

Better think twice before using those nice Ajax desktops to lighten your daily burden of password submissions.

These “startpages” are very commonly used to quickly access a growing collection of online services: webmails, to do lists, calendars, blogging tools, photo and video sharing, instant messaging, bookmarking, …

Just one login to display your whole online ecosystem in one neat page. How convenient! But what about security?

• CNet News.com - [Gates: Now’s the time to stop using passwords—really][7]

• VNUnet.com - [Enterprises wasting millions updating privileged passwords][2]

• PassPack Blog - [Why you must use a Password Manager][1]

Everybody has probably heard [about this][1] before, but it’s worth repeating: Firefox’s storage of passwords is not secure!

• Techflock - [Online Password Managers - why you should use them…][1]

• Bruce Schneier on Wired - Secure Passwords Keep You Safer
  The easiest way to guess a password isn’t to guess it at all, but to exploit the inherent insecurity in the underlying operating system.

• White Hackers - How to sniff plain-text passwords in 13 steps
  An instructional tutorial that shows how easy it is to sniff people’s passwords in plain-text form on virtually any wired network.

• Seattle Post-Intelligencer - Most play poorly at the password game
  One Boulder resident recalls that both he and his wife used unusual vegetables combined with personally significant numbers to make a satisfying computer entree.

• SecuriTeam Blogs - [High load reveals passwords][1]

• BBC - [UN warns on password explosion][1]

[Prof.